Description

Filesystems for everything

FreeBSD includes many special-purpose filesystems. FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems takes you through these filesystems, helping you solve problems you didn't know you have. These filesystems underlie everything from application servers to jails.

You'll learn to manage:

• removable media
• MSDOS and Linux filesystems
• CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray disks
• devfs
• process filesystems
• the file descriptor filesystem
• the POSIX message queue filesystem
• union mounts
• null mounts
• both memory filesystems, and when to use each
• NFS versions 2, 3, and 4
• iSCSI targets and initiators
• the Common Internet File System
• networked disk redundancy with geom_gate and HAST
• high availability storage with HAST and iSCSI
• NFSv4 Access Control Lists
• User Space Filesystems
• FreeBSD's Solaris-compatible automounter

System administrators of any expertise level will expand their FreeBSD mastery with FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems.